endite

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English

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Etymology 1

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From end- +‎ -ite.

Noun

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endite (plural endites)

  1. An additional lobe on the inner side of the protopodite of a crustacean limb.
    Antonym: exite
  2. One of the mouthparts of a spider or other arachnids, specifically the lobe of the palpal coxa lateral to the labium.
    Synonym: maxilla

Etymology 2

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See indite.

Verb

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endite (third-person singular simple present endites, present participle enditing, simple past and past participle endited)

  1. Obsolete form of indite.
    • 1672, [Andrew Marvell], The Rehearsal Transpros’d: Or, Animadversions upon a Late Book, Entituled, A Preface, Shewing what Grounds there are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 4:
      From a VVriter of Books, our Author is already dvvindled to a Preface-monger, and from Prefaces I am confident he may in a ſhort time be improved to endite Tickets for the Bear-Garden.

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